if they have enough evidence they can actually prosecut evan corcoran for his crimes the stakes are pretty high right now for evan corcoran. to that point, talk u through what we need to know about evan corcoran. what was it specifically tha he did for trump donald trump has burned through so many lawyers it s hard to keep track of all of them when he was in florida confronting these question about the classified documents he had taken, he employed evan corcoran to be one of th lawyers who would help him dea with them to tell authoritie that there were no documents left in fact, he solicited statement that was signed by the other attorney saying, you know, there aren t further documents to be found. it turned out that there wer other documents. what was going on there? was he lied to
jury and plead the fifth invoke his fifth amendment right against self incrimination and then jac smith s team will have a decision to make today grant evan corcora immunity and compel s testimony, which would almost certainly incriminate his client donal trump, or if they have enoug evidence, they can actuall prosecute have been corcoran for his crimes the stakes are pretty high right now forever corcoran peter, to that point, tal us through what we need to kno about evan corcoran. what was it specifically tha he did for trump remember, donald trump ha burned through so many lawyers it s hard to keep track of all of them. we got to the point where when he was in florida ar confronting the questions abou classified documents he ha taken, he employed eva corcoran to be one of th lawyers who would help him dea with the to tell authorities that, in fact, there were no documents left in fact, he solicited
campaign people. but it is very insisting tha the big lie is just that, a bi lie. so trump at some point disassociate some self wit those people and brings on rud giuliani s team of lawyers, an we - younger than giuliani but no young lawyers, people like sydney powell and mitchell who have been partners i significant law firms and know what they re doing that to say, alex, they ar whereas potential weaknesses and certainly the legalities i some of these places there is a point cited in th report where mike me is talkin buckley to mitchell, one of th lawyers. senator mike lee from utah conservative republican senator, and he has the opinion thi could be the end of th republic this could be the end of democracy if we use the scheme your point i think is well taken. it was readily apparent that this was not legal i m also struck by this mar
you talk to your brother, th lawyers, the one guy that adam schiff what let you tell us who we years. laura: jim jordan, the entire group, they weren t cowed or bowed, they made their case pointedly, and without fear. it s not easy to do this day in and day out and republicans i think are finally learning fromn trump, don t stop punching back. and they can also turn out to discredit most of what the democrats have tried to argue. they succeeded in the political case from the beginning and the star witness had policy differences from donald trump. they remain intact because of their efforts.
ncht it s not the first time a presidential candidate has been accused of paying money to keep a skeleton in the closet. president trump has one heck of a defense team backing him up. i m motnot just talking about h lawyers. we re prosecuting people and putting them in jail for campaign finance violation, we re going to become a banana republic. cohen is a liar. i can t draw any other conclusions. jesus loves him but everybody else thinks he s an idiot. i think this will be viewed as a private matter more than anything else. the president said it was a private transaction. the democrats will do anything to hurt this president. anything. it s like a lot of other thing wes have done in washington. we have over criminalized campaign finance. just to be clear, it s not